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"Counting in their heads" - 1895 oil painting
08-08-2020, 05:29 PM (This post was last modified: 08-08-2020 05:31 PM by EdS2.)
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"Counting in their heads" - 1895 oil painting
There's a mental arithmetic challenge in this painting - see below for a plain rendering.
[Image: Math+puzzle+painting.jpg]

The challenge is - and I have run this through my own brain, and it's not unfair:
[Image: math+puzzle+itself.jpg]

Which is to say, calculate (10²+11²+12²+13²+14²)/365

It's hardly worth noting that this is very easy with a calculator.

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